امتحان
ترا یہ حال کہ پامال و درد مند ہے تومری یہ شان کہ دریا بھی ہے مرا محتاج
English translation
You are tread upon and suffer deal, how nice! My need the rivers feel.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “امتحان” (Examination) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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